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Gris-gris enigma: can a new posthumous release shed light on the elusive genius of Dr John?

How did a middle-class white kid break into New Orleans’ feverish 1950s R&B scene and enjoy a wildly eclectic six-decade career? As a new release puts it: things happen that way

The Guardian - UK

Mike Bianchi: How Big Ten’s massive TV deal impacts Florida, UCF, FSU and Miami

ORLANDO, Fla. — As the news broke earlier this week about the Big Ten’s landmark TV deal that will reportedly net the league nearly $8 billion over seven years, I started humming the old Hank Williams classic "Move It On Over" in which the late, great country music legend tells…

Orlando Sentinel

Archie Roach obituary

Celebrated performer whose songs, including Took the Children Away, revealed the suffering of Australia’s stolen generations

The Guardian - AU

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Elvis Presley as Willy Wonka? The films the King of Rock’n’Roll almost made

West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy and The Godfather would all have been very different if Elvis had got his way – or if his manager Col Tom Parker hadn’t turned down so many roles on his behalf

The Guardian - UK

Hank Jr. unleashes Thunderhead Hawkins on bawdy blues record

Hank Williams Jr. is unleashing his alter ego Thunderhead Hawkins on a new record of raunchy blues songs

The Independent UK

The MAGA crowd’s empty fantasies

To a skeptical observer, it often looks as if restoring the social and political arrangements of, say, Alabama in the 1950s is the movement’s goal.

Chicago Sun-Times

Yoshi Sekiguchi dies at 90; ‘Japanese Hank Williams’ became acclaimed Chicago graphic designer for Playboy, Disney, Sony, Burger King

When he performed “Your Cheatin’ Heart” for homesick American servicemen in Occupied Japan, they shouted: “Hank! Hank! Hank!”

Chicago Sun-Times

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